Senior Community Wellness Manager (Clinical Supervisor)
Organization Overview
United Friends of the Children empowers current and former foster/justice involved youth on their journey to self-sufficiency through service-enriched programs, advocacy, and consistent relationships with a community of people who care.
Founded over 40 years ago, United Friends’ is a leading provider of youth development services to current and former foster youth in Los Angeles County. Through its housing and education programs, the organization has helped thousands of young people imagine and actualize their own dreams and futures. United Friends’ programs focus on commitment, trauma-informed care, and empowerment by prioritizing a whole-person-development approach. Through a Social Justice Positive Youth Development (SJPYD) model, we center building relationships with youth over an extended period to achieve greater outcomes. Around those relationships, United Friends wraps an array of supportive services to help youth successfully transition to adulthood. As a result of services, United Friends alumni have greater housing and economic stability, higher educational attainment and a stronger sense of community and emotional wellbeing.
Position Overview
Pathways is a low-barrier to entry housing program that provides intensive case management and support services to transitional aged-youth (TAY), ages 18-24. The Pathways program utilizes the Housing First Approach in which, assertive engagement with our youth is essential to ensure youth are aware of and participate in a myriad of resources and supportive services offered by the program. Reporting to the Director of Housing, the Senior Community Wellness Manager (SCWM) will be responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships and integrating a range of activities that support the holistic wellbeing of young adults who are experiencing housing instability.
As a leader in the housing department, the Senior Community Wellness Manager will be responsible for overseeing intake, alumni, and the clinical components of the housing program. The SCWM will provide staff with clinical group supervision and trainings to ensure staff are equipped to support youth experiencing complex trauma. This position involves implementing and supporting the delivery of engaging workshops and events designed to provide meaningful and creative alternatives to conventional clinical care.
The ideal candidate will have a keen understanding of best practice service models, such as trauma-informed care, harm reduction, and social justice positive youth development. Specific knowledge related to transitional aged youth experiencing housing instability is a plus.